Here is a lesson modern teaching will not bring to you because it is seen as so onerous, but it is true in this man’s case and in most of ours. Did Job learn patience among his flocks or with his camels or with his children when they were feasting? No, he learned it when he sat among ashes, and scraped at his sores with a broken pot and when his heart was heavy with grief at the death of his children. Patience is a pearl that is only found under the pressure of a deep,deep sea of affliction, and only grace can find it there, bring it to the surface and adorn the neck of faith with it. So, you think you are patient, how deeply has God taken you in the sea of affliction?
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